What Jordan Has Been Doing All Day (and Night)
I’ve just returned from the small town of Auburn, Indiana, where my grandfather, Gordon Buehrig (who died in 1990) worked as a car designer in the 1930s. He worked on the Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg...
View ArticleIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
[NO SPOILERS] Once upon a time, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were on exactly the same page, and it was glorious. That time was roughly 1973-1983, and their careers were nearly mirror images: two...
View ArticleJordan’s Two Songs
My anxiety in this case is that my taste is so shallow that I’m just posting tracks that everyone else on Horrorthon not only has heard before but considers to be the most mainstream, freshman year...
View ArticleHulk Bore
[I originally posted this as a comment below, but nobody's replied yet (in a whole half-hour), so I'm impatiently clamoring for readers by re-posting it up here. Pay attention to me! Me, me, me, me!]...
View ArticleV2
I’ve just completed the second version of my animated short for the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. This new edition of the gallery exhibition is essentially what I wanted to do all along. I...
View ArticleUnfortunate contrast
Side-by-side photographs on Huffington Post’s “Entertainment page,” earlier today. Share:FacebookEmail
View ArticleFarewell, old friend
After three years of faithful service, my beloved Pioneer DVR-109 internal optical drive has failed. I replaced it today with a brand new, robust DVR-115 (which has already proven itself faster and...
View ArticleComing to Horrorthon Soon
Jordan’s Twilight Zone, coming to Horrorthon soon. I’m on a seriously crazy book deadline, but, as soon as the book is done, look out, Rod Serling. Just a heads up. Share:FacebookEmail
View ArticleRed Car
http://www.jordanorlando.com/ns/redcar Same movie. Red car. My grandmother’s Cord 812, exhibited in the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, is a rich, cold red that’s extremely hard for me to...
View ArticleJordan takes the “grandfather’s car” thing to the next level: HOT WHEELS!
That’s right, it’s the Mattel (R) Hot Wheels 1999 edition (and 2002 Re-Issue) of the 1936 Cord 810 5-Passenger Sedan. (Exactly the car I showed in my exhibit.) The same toy and casting marketed twice...
View ArticleRed Car Redux
Wow! I’m so glad I brought this up. Look at the crazy variant edition Cord they did! I’d never seen that before. (I can’t imagine the car museum liking it much, but I could be wrong.) They’ve been...
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